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Sahitya Goshthhi
Hindi Literature in the Diaspora
2-3 April 2004
Six critically-acclaimed Hindi writers and a noted translator participated in Sahitya Goshthhi: Hindi Literature in the Diaspora. Susham Bedi,
Seema Khurana, Dhananjay Kumar, Madhu Maheshwari, Gulshan Madhur,
Vishakha Thaker, and John Hanson discussed Hindi literature
in the South Asian
diaspora as part of a Master’s Tea at Calhoun College on April
2. On April 3, at the Whitney Humanities Center, the writers read
from and
discussed their writings and participated in writing workshops
with
Yale students enrolled in Hindi.
Sahitya Goshthhi was convened by Seema Khurana, Hindi Lector in
the Department of Linguistics and the South Asian Studies Council
and
sponsored by the Rustgi Family Fund and the Edward J. and Dorothy
Clarke Kempf
Fund, with support from the South Asian Studies Council, Calhoun
College, and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
Hindi has been taught at Yale since 1999 and currently, Yale
offers year-long language courses at the beginning and intermediate
levels
and a semester-long advanced literature course. Hindi will
be one of three South Asian languages taught at Yale, with Sanskrit
have
been
taught at Yale since the 1840s and with Tamil entering the
curriculum
in 2004.
